Wartime housing in a Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1943
Item Overview
- Title
- Wartime housing in a Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1943
- Date Created
- 1943
- Date
- 1943
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Exterior of a Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, used to house African American workers during World War Two.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Religion
African Americans--Housing--California--Los Angeles
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Buddhism
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Culture
Japanese American neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles
Legal
World War, 1939-1945
Temples
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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